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31.03.2008 Relief agencies are mobilizing in Sri Lanka's Batticaloa region, where recent torrential rains forced more than 7,000 Sri Lankans -- many of whom were already displaced by fighting between the government and a rebel group -- to flee their homes.

31.03.2008 Tens of thousands of Armenians -- many forced to flee their homes during the 1988 earthquake or the 1990s war with Azerbaijan -- are still struggling to survive in makeshift homes originally established as temporary housing.

31.03.2008 The UN must take urgent steps to road deaths crisis - now the No 1 killer of young people aged 10-24 worldwide, Nobel Prize winners and leading international figures warned today.

31.03.2008 Zimbabweans heard Sunday night that the results of this weekend's general elections would be declared from 4am GMT on Monday, amidst mounting fears that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's failure to reveal the outcome of the vote earlier signalled further efforts to rig the polls.
+ OneWorld's Zimbabwe Guide

31.03.2008 Australia will officially launch its first demonstration of carbon dioxide geosequestration on 2 April.
From: Green Car Congress

30.03.2008 A new generation of Bus Rapid Transit Systems has opened in China, says Karl Fjellstrom.

30.03.2008 The American Southwest has some of the greatest solar resources on the globe which remain largely untapped. This trend may be changing as solar technology matures, market forces shift and concern for climate change mounts.
From: triplepundit

29.03.2008 A new report estimates that 125 million people could be displaced in South East Asia by the end of the century if global temperatures were to rise by between 4-5 degrees Celsius.

29.03.2008 Rose Benton on the vote in Zimbabwe and how her group plans to hold "mock elections" because they are convinced the results will be rigged.From The New Statesman

28.03.2008 The world's rich countries have made only patchy progress in making aid more effective for helping the poor, despite high-profile commitments to reform aid, according to a new report.

28.03.2008 Oil prices have shot up over the last year due to inadequate global supply -- not rising demand -- says a new report from an environmental research institute.

28.03.2008 A photographer blogs about her experiences in Sierra Leone, where she uses digital photography to help women and girls that have survived conflict, displacement, and gender violence make themselves heard.

27.03.2008 The power of the "Israel lobby" in the US is hard to measure exactly. But its hawkish positions do conflict with the views, and interests, of most American Jews. So why isn't there a more dovish lobby to counter it? One is, finally, about to be unveiled, says Gershom Gorenberg.
From Prospect magazine

27.03.2008 The way Britain treats asylum-seekers falls "seriously below" the standards of a civilised society, says the Independent Asylum Commission.

27.03.2008 North American environmental leaders recently issued a report calling for a greater commitment to green buildings in the region, where commercial and residential structures currently consume an average of 30 percent of total energy needs.

27.03.2008 Stating that migration is a key means of poverty reduction for people from developing countries, Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett propose a new statistic for measuring income per capita: income per natural -- "the mean annual income of persons born in a given country, regardless of where that person now resides."

27.03.2008 Steven Bradbury, a lawyer believed to have authorized the U.S. government's use of torture, has been nominated to head an office entrusted with providing the president with legal advice, reports a human rights monitor.
From: Human Rights Watch

27.03.2008 As the Arctic Ocean loses its floating ice cover, energy companies are racing to profit from the melting sea.

27.03.2008 It is astonishing to hear that some crazy person, or people, have suggested a Kenya Cabinet size of 44, says an anti-corruption blog.
From The Mars Group

27.03.2008 The crisis engulfing Somalia has deteriorated dramatically since NGOs warned in October of an impending humanitarian catastrophe, the organisations say in a statement aimed at putting pressure on members of the UN Security Council.